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   > Re: 3 Worlds & Canada   
   > By: George Pope to All on Thu Apr 07 2022 04:32 pm   
   >> I hear "First World" nations & "Third World" & it always seenms to be per   
   >> economic  division.   
   >>    
   >> Apparently it technically refers to nartions who were neutral during the   
   >> Cold War.   
   > This is honestly news to me. I learned that the terms "First World," "Second   
   > World," and "Third World" were economic designations, referring to   
   >Industrialized and Fully Developed Countries (First World), Industrializing an   
   >Developing but Not Yet Developed Countries (Second World), and Undeveloped and   
   > Unindustrialized Countries (Third World).   
   >Under that definition, which is what I was taught in grade school in the 1980s   
   > Canada is certainly "First World," but I also had learned that the Soviet   
   > Union, China, and India were all "Second World" countries given their   
   > incomplete and continuing development towards true industrialization. It's   
   > clearly a process that continues to this day for Russia, China, and India.   
      
   This isas I've picked up on, without school referring to it much, except just    
   using the labels in contexts I had to look up and learn about myself.   
      
   But the original meaning is as I noted above.  I can see how the terms   
   evolved, but it is interesting, to me. . . How the hoi polloi pretty much only   
   use the  1st & 3rd to delineate an "us & them" polarity, with "us" clearly   
   superior &  better in every way, not just economically.   
      
   I was raised to question everything, & not blindly accept negatives about    
   others, no matter who's trying to feed them to me.   
      
   Mostly I see the terms now used to convey who is being used to sell military    
   equipment to (Big Steel et al making a bundle) & who we profit from in   
   general  trade.  So many constant wars & [otherly fomenented] military coups   
   among the  third world. Every now & again some thing goes overboard & they   
   have to send  our young & healthy to die to protect our old men's gold (One   
   Roman's  definition of "Patriotism") :(    
      
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